FST Welcomes New Security Lead, Crystal Tapia

Crystal Tapia

For Crystal Tapia, joining the FST Team meant the opportunity to help implement Workday and to use her skills at a large institution like UVA.

As the UVA FST Security Lead, Crystal will be focusing on Workday security needs. She will primarily be involved in security for Finance but will also help with HCM security as needed. She will be working closely with the UVA Workday Security Team, Kelli O’Dell, and Venkata Nimmalapudi.

Though jumping into a Lead role at this point in the project could prove challenging, Crystal seems more than up to the task. “I’m happy at UVA so far,” Crystal says. “It’s the right amount of challenge and growth I was looking for, and that feels fulfilling.”

She also is thankful to her fellow FST Team members for getting her up to speed. “I appreciate how quickly the FST Team brought me into the fold,” she explains, “and how open people are when I need guidance on how things are done at UVA.”

Outside of work, Crystal enjoys learning new languages, cooking, baking, and singing karaoke. She also loves to travel, which once lead her to work at an event in Japan during cherry blossom season. She even got to wear a traditional Japanese kimono at this event and says that “kimonos are surprisingly complicated to put on.”